A team from the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) recently won the championship at the Global Multimedia Deepfake Detection Challenge held during the 2024 Inclusion Conference on the Bund in Shanghai, grabbing a prize of RMB 100,000.
The winning team consisted of FST students Chen Yiming, Li Fengpeng, Li Kemou, Wong Ka Him, Li Zheng, Chen Xiangyu, Song Binbin, Xu Shuning, and Liu Jun, as well as UM alumnus Wu Haiwei, who were all trained for the competition under the guidance of UM’s Department of Computer and Information Science Head Zhou Jiantao.
The UM team competed against nearly 10,000 participants from over 7,000 teams coming from more than 20 countries and regions, including teams representing the likes of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Peking University, the National University of Singapore, Microsoft, Google, ByteDance, the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Microsoft Research Asia, as well as Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, according to the local university.
Deepfake technology utilises advanced deep learning algorithms to create highly realistic facial animations and voice synthesis effects by learning from large amounts of video and image data, also known as ‘AI face-swapping’ technology. This technology not only makes it more difficult for the public to determine the authenticity of videos but also increases the risks of fraud, pornography, and other illegal activities.
Given the growing threat of ‘AI face-swapping’ fraud, it is vital to cultivate professionals in this area.
The competition focused on practical exercises in ‘AI face-swapping’, which helped foster industry-academia collaboration, talent development in artificial intelligence, and the development of solutions to effectively counter deepfake attacks in various scenarios, thereby safeguarding industries and society.
The competition was organised by Ant Group and presented by Ant Group Digital Technologies, with academic collaboration from institutions including the School of Cyber Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China, and the China Society of Image and Graphics. The competition was hosted on the renowned data science competition platform Kaggle.
Source and Photo: UM
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